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what's your favourite film?
after a hard day sifting rice down at the farm, i like nothing better than to come home to my mud-brick hut, curl up on the stack of hay in the corner and put on a DVD. but i've watched everything in my collection and need your recommendations.
have you watched a good film lately and need to share it with others? or maybe you've watched a terrible film and need to get it off your conscience? list them here and share your reviews!
have you watched a good film lately and need to share it with others? or maybe you've watched a terrible film and need to get it off your conscience? list them here and share your reviews!
Comments on this journal
get a life woman! we used to laugh at those films when we were in secondary school! actually i did see a bengali one years ago and it was so funny. a fat man and a really ugly woman. my friends and i had bunked off games that afternoon and we came back to my place. a friend put it on and we couldnt stop laughing --- until someone asked "do you think that's how are parents do it?"
it is the charge levelled at the so-called Bengali badhralok that they had a detached yet idealised vision of rural life. anyone that hasn't experienced that first-hand always does. mother india, for example, which was deeply influenced by ideas of indian nationalism, does this very well. i'm sure you know that nehru had a very privileged upbringing, which probably resulted in his fixation with the indian countryside which influenced his idea of how indian should develop.
we see this in all forms of art not just films. take tagore the "universal poet" as an example. he was a scion of one of the richest and most well-connected bengali families and educated at cambridge. his works are so well-known partly because he was a leading member of bengal's urban elite. now take kazi nazrul islam (the "rebel poet") whose works are on many levels deeper and more profound than tagore's. he wrote in bengali and persian on everyday issues like poverty, injustice, sectarianism, nationalism and much more. (tagore is best known for his pseudo-gnostic songs to God.) he published a fabulous poem on rebellion at the age of just twenty-two which immediately put him on the literary map. when tagore read nazrul's earlier works, he dismissed him as a poet of no significance. when tagore read Bidrohi ("The Rebel"), he was amazed and called nazrul the new voice of Bengal.
i am glad you posted your comments here. I will definitely look up those films!
I don't know if u have heard or seen any of Ghatak's or even Mrinal Sen's films. Get them if u can. They were not scared to expose the injustice,social uprootment, and oppression that the lower middle class and unemployed suffered.
Asianuk --- i think Aparajito (part two in the AT) was a very beautiful and moving film. artistically Ray was influenced by both European artists and the Bengali cultural elite of the time. his ability to blend the two traditions is why his films have been so ground-breaking.